FLORIDA AFFAIRS
Item
- Title
- FLORIDA AFFAIRS
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1881-06-10
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1881-06-10/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Rape; Daughter
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Sentencing
- Location
- Out of State, Marianna FL
- Length of story
- 126
- Description
-
Marianna Courier: “The only case of any
particular Interest before the court was that of
Cox for rape. The person upon whom the
rape was attempted was the daughter of the
prisoner. This ease was brought to our court
by change of venue from Washington county.
family is one of respectability, and he
prisoner was esteemed as a respectable man
until about two or three years ago, when.from
running a little ‘moonshine distillery, he be
came very much addicted to drink Cox in
the campaign of 1878. was an independent
candidate for the Legislature in Washington
county and received a fair proportion of the vote
The trial was one of absorbing interest,
and the evidence against the prisoner was of
the most convincing and conclusive character